A New Tenuidactylus Gecko from the Sulaiman Range, Punjab, Pakistan
1991; The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Volume: 25; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1564648
ISSN1937-2418
Autores Tópico(s)Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
ResumoA series of Tenuidactylus geckos were collected from the foothills of the Sulaiman Range, northwestern Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. The gecko is a new species belonging to the caspius group of species. It is described and compared with all known geckos from Pakistan. A key for its identification from its congeners in the caspius group is presented. Observations on its reproduction, ecology and geographical distribution are recorded. al of Herpet logy, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 199-204, 1991 right 1 91 Society for the Study of Amphibi s and R ptiles e Tenuidactylus Gecko from the i an Range, Punjab, Pakistan Recently several reports have appeared on geckos from sub-Himalayan and circum-Himalayan regions (Duda and Sahi, 1978; Szczerbak, 1978; Khan, 1980a; Golubev and Szczerbak, 1981; Leviton and Anderson, 1984; Khan, 1988, 1989; Khan and Tasnim, 1990). Szczerbak and Golubev (1984, 1986) have reviewed all known geckos of the U.S.S.R. and the adjoining areas. The taxonomy of geckos with angularly bent digits is a subject of much debate among herpetologists. They were grouped in the genus Gymnodactylus Spix, 1885 (Boulenger, 1890; Annandale, 1913; Hora, 1926; Smith, 1935; Loveridge, 1947), until Underwood (1954) restricted Gymnodactylus to bent-toed geckos of South America, placing northeast African, south Asian, Indonesian, and Australian geckos in Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, Minton (1962, 1966) followed this arrangement for Pakistani geckos, while Mertens (1969) retained Gymnodactylus, placing all Pakistani bent-toed geckos in the subgenus Cyrtodactylus. Szczerbak and Golubev (1984, 1986, 1988) restricted the genus Cyrtodactylus to southeastern Asian geckos, placing Palearctic thin, bent-toed geckos belonging to the caspius species complex in Tenuidactylus, and geckos of the kachhensis group with broad, bent toes in the genus Cyrtopodion Fitzinger, 1843. Khan l several reports have ap eared on ro sub-Himalayan and circum-Himegions (Duda and Sahi, 1978; Szc erbak, ; a , 1980a; Golubev and Szczerbak, 1981; (1989) has shown that T. montiumsalsorum belongs to the genus Tenuidactylus rather than Cyrtopodion as thought by Szczerbak and Golubev (1986). Tenuidactylus montiumsalsorum has been the only gecko of the caspius species group recorded from Pakistan. Earlier reports of T. fedtschenkoi from Pakistan (Khan and Mirza, 1977; Khan, 1980a) are based on misidentifications. In August 1989, I toured District Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, and collected a series of 23 large geckos, which on examination proved to be a new taxon belonging to the caspius species complex. Tenuidactylus kohsulaimanai sp. nov. Fig. 1 Holotype.-Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Kiev (SR) 3046:20251, adult male, from under road bridges on Dera Ghazi Khan-Fort Monro Road, near low hills 6 km S of Sakhisarwar village, 40 km N of Dera Ghazi Khan city, 21 August 1989. Paratypes (22 total).-BMNH 1990.1, adult female, data as for holotype; CAS 170534, adult female, Rakhi Gorge 20 km E Fort Monro, 29057'N, 69?69'E, 22 August 1989; FMNH 235532, dult female, data as for holotype; NMW 31719, s s o n that T. montiumsalsorum bee genus Tenuidactylus rather than Cyras thought by Szczerbak and Golubev 199 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.35 on Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:39:00 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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